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Syllabus: LLC 641 Spring 2006; 7:30pm Tuesdays; FA001

Unit One: Community

Unit Two: Computer-assisted Writing

Unit Three: Literacy

** Reading assignments are to be completed [so that you are prepared for discussion] for class as indicated below. For example, be prepared to discuss all of the introduction and chapters one-three of Virtual Community, when you come to class on Feb.3.

 

Week one                    Introduce Unit One: Community; Web evaluation of communities

 

Week two                    Virtual Community (VC): Introduction ,Chapter One: The Heart of the WELL , Chapter Two: Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place,

Chapter Three: Visionaries and Convergences: The Accidental History of the Net; [collaborative presentation on VC]; Independent Presentation

 

Week three                  Virtual Community: Chapter Four: Grassroots Groupminds,

Chapter Five: Multi-user Dungeons and Alternate Identities,

Chapter Six: Real-time Tribes, Chapter Seven: Japan and the Net

[collaborative presentation on VC] ; Independent Presentation

 

Week four                    Virtual Community: Chapter Eight: Telematique and Messageries Rose: A Tale of Two Virtual Communities, Chapter Nine: Electronic Frontiers and Online Activists, Chapter Ten: Disinformocracy; [collaborative presentation on VC]; Essay One due for peer review; Independent Presentation

 

Week five                    Introduce Unit Two: Computer-assisted Writing;

Writing New Media [WNM]; Essays pages 1-110; Collaborative Presentation; Essay One Due

 

Week six                      Writing New Media [WNM]; Essays pages 110-236; Collaborative Presentation   

                                               

Week seven                 Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies[PPCT], Introduction and Part One: Refiguring Notions of Literacy in an Electronic World; [collaborative presentation on PPCT] ; Independent Presentation

 

Week eight                  Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies, Part Two:

                                    Revisiting Notions of Teaching and Access in an Electronic Age;

                                    [collaborative presentation on PPCT]; Essay Two due for peer review; Independent Presentation

 

 

Week nine                   Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies, Part Three:

                                    Ethical and Feminist Concerns in an Electronic World;

                                    [collaborative presentation on PPCT]; Essay Two due; Independent Presentation

 

 

Week ten                     Introduce Unit Three: Literacy

Literacy a critical sourcebook, Introduction and Part One: Technologies for Literacy; [collaborative presentation on L]; topic due for final essay; Independent Presentation

 

Week eleven                Literacy a critical sourcebook [L], Part Two: Literacy, Knowledge, and Cognition, essays 6,7,9,10 and Part Three: Histories of Literacy in the US, essays 12, 13; [collaborative presentation on L]; audience and use analysis and bibliography due for final essay; Independent Presentation

 

Week twelve                Literacy a critical sourcebook; Part Three: Histories of Literacy in the US, essays 14, 15, 16, 17 and Part Four: Literacy Development, essays 18, 19; [collaborative presentation on L] ; Independent Presentation

 

Week thirteen              Literacy a critical sourcebook; Part Four: Literacy Development, essays 20, 21, 22, 23 and Part Five: Culture and Community, essays 24, 25; [collaborative presentation on L]; final essay due for

                                    Peer review; Independent Presentation

 

Week fourteen             Literacy a critical sourcebook; Part Five: Culture and Community, essays 26, 27, 28 and Part Six: Power, Privilege, and Discourse, essays 29, 30, 31; [collaborative presentation on L] ; Independent Presentation;

                                    Final Essay Due

 

Week fifteen                Literacy a critical sourcebook; Part Six: Power, Privilege, and Discourse, essays 32, 33, and Part Seven: Mobilizing Literacy: Work and Social Change; [collaborative presentation on L]; final in-class reflective essay; Independent Presentation